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Among the many sequels I've seen, I can only cite two examples, the first being the second season of Aria. Aria the Animation (the first season) had 13 episodes, while Aria the Natural had 26. The second example is the third season of Nanoha, which had 26 episodes as well, the two first seasons had 13 each.

This shows that there is a precedent, but that is is extremely rare from what I've experienced through the years. Sequels tend to either have the same amount of episodes as the original, or fewer. Very rarely does the number rise; but, as Aria and Nanoha shows, it's not completely impossible.

Well at least there's precedent I guess, hopefully this will be one of those rare cases.

I feel that this will be as dissapointing as ZnT III. I read the Light Novels and they skipped so many material that it was painfull to think in the next season. Now if they are gonna do the remaining volumes on only 13 episodes, when I think that it should be two seasons instead of one, it will be a failure. My hopes are that they get serious on this and get 26 episodes.

Among the many sequels I've seen, I can only cite two examples, the first being the second season of Aria. Aria the Animation (the first season) had 13 episodes, while Aria the Natural had 26. The second example is the third season of Nanoha, which had 26 episodes as well, the two first seasons had 13 each.

This shows that there is a precedent, but that is is extremely rare from what I've experienced through the years. Sequels tend to either have the same amount of episodes as the original, or fewer. Very rarely does the number rise; but, as Aria and Nanoha shows, it's not completely impossible.

Not really a sequel, but the Kanon remake was increased to 24 episodes up from the 13 of the original series.

Not really a sequel, but the Kanon remake was increased to 24 episodes up from the 13 of the original series.

Thought of that, and I don't think it qualifies, even in a broad sense, since they were completely unrelated except being based on the same source material.

Either way, from what people are saying, it sounds like it'll either be a proper 24-26 episode series, or an anime original and/or complete butchering 12-13 episode series. Being completely unfamiliar with the source material, I wouldn't really mind much if they diverged from it, but obviously I want the series to be as good as it could possibly be, and that would probably be easier to achieve following the novels.

But JC Staff had never produced a series that its first season was a one-cour and one of its sequels was a two-cour. Zero no Tsukaima will be the first if the final season will be a two-cour.

I don't think that makes the situation any different than what we've already established, which is that two-cour sequels to single-cour series are rare occurrences. Since it's that uncommon to begin with, the fact that it would be the studio's first seems insignificant in comparison.

Anyhow, I look forward to hearing Horie Yui as Siesta again. That was the first role I heard her in, and I've been a huge appreciator of her work ever since.

I do not mind if it's more than 13 episodes. Would 24 episodes be enough?

I'ts not optimal but it'll do, and it's not like we can get more than two cours for this unfortunately (The best case scenario would be a 52+ episode remake of the whole series but that's not happening ).

In order to not destroy the novel contents the best thing the studio can do is make a 2C season of 25 episodes, and "resume" the fanservice scenes and pointless parts like the gag of Louise being insecure again.

I wonder if they would animate the adventure to the elven lands because by the picture I saw for ZnT. I just got the feeling that they will only animate the war with Joseph and do a crappy anime original ending <.< you know we are talking about J.C staff.

In order to not destroy the novel contents the best thing the studio can do is make a 2C season of 25 episodes, and "resume" the fanservice scenes and pointless parts like the gag of Louise being insecure again.

^ if it's going to be one cour then their my hunch of getting it ended after the battle with joseph is getting higher chance than before.

If it's gonna end at that point, they would have produced the final season a long time ago. The anime will end at the light novel's end, which is why the final season will air after the light novel ends.

but it has a high chance of 1 cour if it airs by that time. Do you think 10 volume would be fitted at 12-13 episode <.< a 2 coure with 24-26 episode is already in a tight position to even adapt that length.